name: Accursed Lands MUD
telnet: accursed-lands.com port 8000
type: modified Lima
AL has been online since 1996, when a half-dozen creators left DartMUD (another LP mud that's still online and going strong) to found a hardcore roleplaying MUD.
AL is still in active development, with new coded features added regularly. We have a fairly sizeable staff with some knowledgeable old-timers and a lot of enthusiastic newer creators. We're always interested in associating ourselves with experienced LPC coders, but we haven't had much luck hiring people "off the street" - we find that hiring people from within the playerbase leads to a more productive long-term arrangement, since they're already in agreement with our goals and conventions.
We have a decent playerbase, averaging around 80 accounts per day (down from 150 at our peak). We hope to grow to around 200 active accounts/day soon, since we have a spiffy new dedicated server with all the bells and whistles. For AL, server lag is a thing of the past.
AL was voted "RPI mud of the year for 2006" at
rpimud.com, and consistently places in the top-20 at
topmudsites.com. Our players enjoy our attention to detail and often use our "praise board" to remark on our high-quality writing and realistically-coded features.
Accursed Lands is a roleplay MUD. Players are expected to stay in character at all times and observe a strict separation between OOC and IC. We're not a beginner's MUD, but we try welcome everyone with a desire to roleplay. Our newbie helpers (mentors) are dedicated and caring.
Our theme is all-original low fantasy, with tinges of gothic horror set in a medieval environment.
Some features of which we're proud:
- Rooms have coordinate systems - realistic ranged combat, no speedwalking
- Realistic flying and underwater travel - surface rooms have air rooms above them
- Unique underworld system - players can tunnel around and make underground rooms that persist across reboots
- Extensive emote system - the best I've seen
- Neato wilderness map - "see" the wilds around you on an ascii map
- High-quality descriptions - all items fully described, extra descriptions on most items
- Realism is our goal - to do something, ask yourself how you'd do it in real life
We work slowly, but we do it right. We've been online for more than 10 years and accomplished a lot, but we still have a lot to do. Come check us out and see what a mature LP mud is capable of. We require you to register an email address to receive your account password.
